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More Blogging Love

The author of The Heartbreak of Invention passed along a Liebster and a Versatile Blogging Award to me. Aside from being a very kind person (with a lovely singing voice), she is a very talented writer. I have read all of her posts (I’ve only done that with two other bloggers) because I found her writing and her story mesmerizing. I recommend starting her blog from the beginning.

Another HoI reader writes, “Her narratives are not only superbly written, heartfelt, and passionate, but they also reveal the character of her personal humanity, which is loving and generous and compassionate. Anyone who is NOT affected by her writing is simply not paying attention” (dang, I wish I had written that!).

One of the reasons I have put off responding to Heartbreak of Invention’s recognition (she sent the Liebster a while back) is that it’s so hard to select who to pass it along to; the choices expand exponentially each day. Just today, I visited all of The Heartbreak of Invention’s selections and I was blown away. There are a lot of super cool people in the world!

I know that was my thinking behind creating YRU Saying This? I wanted to acknowledge all of the authors, artists, young moms, old moms, sleepless moms, mommies saying swear words, daddies saying swear words (in fact, insert dads everywhere you see moms), angry middle age women, angry hotel employees, angry guys who have great vocabularies and interesting things to say, happy middle-aged woman in empty nests who no longer suffer from night-sweats, dizziness, or an inability to keep their mouths shut while their mate is driving, college students , step-mothers, non-step-mothers, individuals sharing their heartbreak, sharing their battles with cancer, sharing their loneliness, their joy, their really bad hair in the eighties, their family travels, their best recipes, their hints on how to eradicate rodents from one’s automobile’s air filter, their happy memories, their not so happy memories, their memories of things they did when they were young and foolish and from a worrywart’s perspective dumb and lucky (some of the young ones are currently making those dangerous memories and they should really just stop it), and their friendship. I wanted a place to honor each of these people.

It is taking me forever, so until then please visit the links within each of the Versatile Blogger Awards on my home page. I’ll be adding the 20 (five for Liebster and 15 for Versatile) links below to two more icons on that page. Please visit my future YRU Saying this site. It is 1/64 th of the way completed – you’ll need a back button to get back here – The Time Machine comes to mind – it may be centuries before it is completed (although I think H.G. Wells would be proud of us).

OneTwoThreeFour Five things about me (instead of seven):

1. I am married to one of the best human beings on the planet. I do not know how I got so lucky. As challenging as my relationship was with my mother-in-law before she died, she raised a great person; the best person. Tony is talking to the 91 year old friend (the woman with his pepper grinder and our microwave) about groceries as I write; he is reassuring her. I hope I know someone like my husband when I am 91. I understand now why my husband’s mother was so adamant about guarding his heart.

2. I worry about being 91.

3. I am savoring this feeling of acceptance, but just to let you know the first time I wrote the word acceptance (two days ago), I spelled it exceptance . . . I include that because:

4. My husband said to me about something unrelated on my blog, “Maybe it is over your readers’ heads.” Me, knowing that I had misspelled acceptance among other things, responded, “No, honey. I am way below the readers’ heads.” As much as that sounds like a lack of self-esteem, it is the truth about you.

5. Pet peeve: “And you are the only one working (directed at husband) because you are home with the kids (directed at mom).” December 20, 2011, 8:36 p.m. – Househunters HGTV. I hope I misunderstood what was said. Otherwise Occupy HGTV?

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23 thoughts on “More Blogging Love”

Congrats on your nomination and thank you for mine. I am truly blessed by this. Over the last few months I battled with myself to write more and I’m so thankful that I have been rewarded with such an amazing gift! Thank you! Congrats! Be blessed!

Thanks. I think your blog keeps me in touch with what my college kids are going through (including being up ayt 3:46 a.m.). I especially appreciated your post about your online class. My youngest son does not do well in online classes, but often they are the only option. I wish he had your drive and confidence to talk to professors when they make mistakes

These online classes are no joke they are ten times harder than a regular class. I am just glad that my words can help someone. I have more info about school to post later it is such a mess and they make it so hard for students to go back. It’s not even funny. but thanks again doll! Happy holidays!

Hey, congrats! And thanks so much! I love your blog and you are welcome to offer advice to me any time. That’s what knowing people who have been through it is all about. Without that perspective, I just muddle through. ; )

WW, you and Tony are seriously cut from the same cloth. Why do I always cry when I read your blog….do you remind me of someone? I keep trying to figure it out. Wait….I know…your’re a great writer with a great heart and I melt when in your presence. You are changing this crazy world one blog at a time. I can hear it now:

“Has WW read your blog yet?”
“No, I’ve been Freshly Pressed like 800 times but she still hasn’t read it. What do I have to do to get WW to read my blog? What did you do that’s so damn great, anyway?”
“Well…I do have a lovely singing voice.”
“Do you think she’d like it if I sang her a song?”
“Maybe… can you…sing?”
“Not really?”
“Sketch a cute mug shot? I think she’s got a soft spot for cute mug shots.”
“No. Can’t.”
“Are you crying?”
“No! It’s my contacts.”
“Well, chin up…she has to work on her own blog too…It’ll happen one day.”
“When have I heard that before?”
“Maybe you should take some time to read her blog, see what life is like for the Worry Wart…you might get some insight into why she’s ignoring your blog. I’ve read–”
“She’s not ignoring it…”
“OK….just sayin’.”
“That’s it!”
“What? What’s it?”
“I’ve got my answer, I’ve got my answer!”
“Why are you talking like Michael Cane in Hannah and Her Sisters.”
“I’m walking on air! I’m walking on air!”
“Joe, your English accent is scaring me.”
“It’s all up to menow. I’ll take it from here.”
“Take what? Joe? Did you stop taking your meds again?”
“Oh stop it! I just need a pair of her shoes.”

This is the fountain I come for!
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There’s no way to say it without sounding trite and corny but I mostly just smile at these comments, this blog. and all the gooey fun love through out. Ok I laugh too. a lot. I don’t do written humor well so I’m not going to try but I usually know how to express my experience. In this case (all of that everythingness from Patrice’s comment upwards!) it’s one word.

*Smile*

ok maybe it’s a few more than that. sunshine stowed away in crows feet. there. That’s like 6 words.

Patrice, I replied to this earlier, but my comment disappeared – I was having commenting difficulty (it’s probably floating around somewhere). My hope is everyone will read your blog post by post and/or you will someday soon compile the posts into a novel (which honestly does not seem like a big enough word).

I am so honored. I can’t believe that you, of all the hilarious, sensitive bloggers would include me in your awards. When I saw the happy face in your comment, I thought that was my award. And, that was wonderful. But, when I returned and found that you have passed on your well-deserved honor, I was amazed.
This blogging is all new stuff to me, and I can’t believe how generous my fellow writers have been.
Wonderful holidays to you. You send blessings.

Congratulations and how kind of you! Thank you so much for the nomination, I so enjoy your blog, it is clever and funny and it is possibly the most stylish blog I have ever seen (sorry to everyone else – your blogs are lovely too but this one is – as my kids used to say – class!) Thanks again.

Thank you. I enjoy reading your blog and tend to “keep as new” so I can go back and reread your posts. To create the look of this blog, I just used the Chateau theme and then included a back ground picture. I’m looking forward to “redecorating” for New Years. :-)

Thanks so much for listing my link! By the way, did I tell you how much I love, love, love your blog design? Hit me over the head with something heavy if I should’ve known this by now but are you a graphic designer?

#1 – Your husband sounds so much like mine! He rolls my eyes when I call him a saint but he truly is. Ten years together and I can’t say a single bad thing about the guy except he folds towels wrong. (Lucky us!)

One would be hard pressed to find anything sweet in our kitchen. I started in on the candy canes on the back of the tree a couple of days ago. The only other decorations on the tree are popcorn and cranberries so if my uncontrollable eating continues, there will be no taking down the “ornaments” in January.